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With a view to developing a formalism that will be applicable at second perturbative order, we devise a new practical scheme for computing the gravitational self-force experienced by a point mass moving in a curved background spacetime. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-14 Barry Wardell , Niels Warburton

We present a calculation of the scalar field self-force (SSF) acting on a scalar-charge particle in a strong-field orbit around a Kerr black hole. Our calculation specializes to circular and equatorial geodesic orbits. The analysis is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-30 Niels Warburton , Leor Barack

We provide expansions of the Detweiler-Whiting singular field for motion along arbitrary, planar accelerated trajectories in Schwarzschild spacetime. We transcribe these results into mode-sum regularization parameters, computing previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Anna Heffernan , Adrian C. Ottewill , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Peter Diener

The theory of gauge-invariant non-spherical metric perturbations of Schwarzschild black hole spacetimes is now well established. Yet, as different notations and conventions have been used throughout the years, the literature on the subject…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Alessandro Nagar , Luciano Rezzolla

We consider the importance of the second-order dissipative self force for gravitational wave dephasing for an extreme or intermediate mass ratio system moving along a quasi-circular Schwarzschild orbit. For the first-order self force we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-12 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna

A compact object moving in curved spacetime interacts with its own gravitational field. This leads to both dissipative and conservative corrections to the motion, which can be interpreted as a self-force acting on the object. The original…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Barry Wardell , Chad R. Galley , Anil Zenginoglu , Marc Casals , Sam R. Dolan , Adrian C. Ottewill

We present a novel approach for calculating the gravitational self-force (GSF) in the Lorenz gauge, employing hyperboloidal slicing and spectral methods. Our method builds on the previous work that applied hyperboloidal surfaces and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Benjamin Leather

Post-adiabatic models of extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals will require calculations of second-order gravitational self-force effects in the spacetime of a spinning, Kerr black hole. We take a step toward such calculations by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-04 Patrick Bourg , Benjamin Leather , Marc Casals , Adam Pound , Barry Wardell

We discuss the gravitational self-force on a particle in a black hole space-time. For a point particle, the full (bare) self-force diverges. The metric perturbation induced by a particle can be divided into two parts, the direct part (or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Wataru Hikida , Hiroyuki Nakano , Misao Sasaki

Gravitational waves from the inspiral of a stellar-size black hole to a supermassive black hole can be accurately approximated by a point particle moving in a Kerr background. This paper presents progress on finding the electromagnetic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tobias S. Keidl , John L. Friedman , Alan G. Wiseman

Using the first law of binary black-hole mechanics, we compute the binding energy E and total angular momentum J of two non-spinning compact objects moving on circular orbits with frequency Omega, at leading order beyond the test-particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-22 Alexandre Le Tiec , Enrico Barausse , Alessandra Buonanno

We present a characteristic initial value approach to calculating the Green function of the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations. We combine well-known numerical methods with newly derived initial data to obtain a scheme which can in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Conor O'Toole , Adrian Ottewill , Barry Wardell

We present the first numerical calculation of the (local) metric perturbation produced by a small compact object moving on an eccentric equatorial geodesic around a Kerr black hole, accurate to first order in the mass ratio. The procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-26 Maarten van de Meent , Abhay G. Shah

In a previous paper, based on the black hole perturbation approach, we formulated a new analytical method for regularizing the self-force acting on a particle of small mass $\mu$ orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Wataru Hikida , Sanjay Jhingan , Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

We calculate the first-order (in the mass-ratio) metric perturbation produced by a small body on an eccentric, precessing bound orbit about a Kerr black hole. We reconstruct the metric perturbation from the maximal spin-weight Weyl scalars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Zachary Nasipak

It is now possible to compute linear in mass-ratio terms in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion for compact binaries to very high orders using black hole perturbation theory applied to various invariants. For instance, a computation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-12 Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Abhay G. Shah , Bernard F. Whiting

Self-force methods can be applied in calculations of the scatter angle in two-body hyperbolic encounters, working order by order in the mass ratio (assumed small) but with no recourse to a weak-field approximation. This, in turn, can inform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-09 Oliver Long

We present a calculation of the Detweiler redshift factor in binary black hole simulations based on its relation to the surface gravity. The redshift factor has far-reaching applications in analytic approximations, gravitational self-force…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-10 Sergi Navarro Albalat , Aaron Zimmerman , Matthew Giesler , Mark A. Scheel

Second-order gravitational self-force theory has recently led to the breakthrough calculation of ``first post-adiabatic'' (1PA) compact-binary waveforms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241402 (2023)]. The computations underlying those waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Jeremy Miller , Benjamin Leather , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton

We calculate the odd-parity, radiative ($\ell \ge 2$) parts of the metric perturbation in Lorenz gauge caused by a small compact object in eccentric orbit about a Schwarzschild black hole. The Lorenz gauge solution is found via gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-20 Seth Hopper , Charles R. Evans